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Format: Commander

Commander: Mahadi, Emporium Master

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is an aristocrats and Treasure engine led by Mahadi, Emporium Master. It converts creature deaths into mana acceleration, fueling continuous card advantage, board control, and life drain. The early game establishes cheap recursive fodder like Bloodghast, Bitterblossom, and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia alongside low-cost mana artifacts. Once Mahadi is deployed on Turn 3, the deck begins generating Treasure tokens on every turn where creatures die. This influx of mana allows the deck to assemble potent sacrifice engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician, Skullclamp, and Braids, Arisen Nightmare. During the mid game, asymmetric attrition pieces such as Grave Pact and Mayhem Devil keep opposing creature boards clear while accelerating Treasure generation. Finally, high-impact drain payoffs including Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Master, Bastion of Remembrance, and Syr Konrad, the Grim convert sacrifice loops and token creation into lethal damage against all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodsoaked Insight // Sanguine Morass
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cult Conscript
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder
  • 1 Erebos, Bleak-Hearted
  • 1 Fatal Push
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fountainport
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Judith, the Scourge Diva
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Lagomos, Hand of Hatred
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mahadi, Emporium Master
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Midnight Reaper
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Molten Collapse
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Carnage
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Sifter of Skulls
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tarrian's Journal // The Tomb of Aclazotz
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat